(1) These rules may be called the Punjab Consumer Protection (General) Rules, 2021.
PUNJAB GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA), AUGUST 24, 2021 (BHDR 2, 1943 SAKA) 1914 Section 2(19).
(h) “State Bank of India” means the State Bank of India constituted under section 3 of State Bank of India Act, 1955 (Central Act No.
23 of 1955);
(i) “Public Sector Banks” means State Bank of India and Nationalised Bank (Nationalised bank means a corresponding new bank specified in the First Schedule to the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970 (5 of 1970) or a corresponding new bank specified in the First Schedule to the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 (40 of 1980);
(j) “opposite party” means a person who answers a complaint under the Act;
(k) “public utility service” means any,—
(i) transport service for the carriage of passengers or goods by air, road or water; or
(ii) postal, telegraph, telephone or broadband service; or
(iii) supply of power, light or water or fuel or natural gas to the public by any establishment; or
(iv) insurance service; and
(v) service in, or in connection with, the working of any major port or dock;
(l) “President” means the President of the State Commission or the District Commission, as the case may be;
(m) “respondent” means the person who answers any memorandum of appeal;
(n) “section” means a section of the Act;
(o) “State” means the State of Punjab; and
(p) “State Government” means the Government of the State of Punjab in the Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs.
(2) The words and expressions used herein, but not defined shall have the same meaning as respectively assigned to them in the Act.